Hell! After a couple upgrades or switching to GCC 4.1 (yes, I did recompile world) or whatever, the damn mic input doesn't work anymore! It's been working from kernel 2.6.15 (IIRC) and built-in HDA driver and now it doesn't. I noticed that because I'm using Skype. One day (a couple of months ago) I tried Skype and I could use the microphone. Once more Skype now shows me the microphone input doesn't work anymore. Go figure..._________________Gentoo addict: tomorrow I quit, I promise!... Just one more emerge...
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my father brought a Dell Inspiron 9400 top notch thingy and after c.1 month the bloody monitor has packed up? i have had it working but only through luck! now it wont fire up, it comes on and shows the dell bit as if it is gonna load and then bam the screen goes down. i can hear windows start and it connect to my wireless network but i cant see a thing??? any advise please?????

You might not know what this forum is all about (i.e. Gentoo Linux) but it's not about Windows or anything else than Gentoo Linux. However I'll try my best to answer your question. If I understood you can see the Dell logo when the laptop starts hence it's working properly. Given my experience with Windows I'd say what you experience is a driver problem - I've already seen such kinds of wierd problems especially after automatic updates for example.

Press the F8 key and select "Use last known good configuration". It's how I got Windows working normally again after it repeatedly rebooted every 10-15 seconds.

And if you want to give Gentoo Linux a try, go to www.gentoo.org, download and burn a live/install CD ISO image to check how it looks like._________________Gentoo addict: tomorrow I quit, I promise!... Just one more emerge...
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but i notice that the "subwoofer" on the downside on the laptop does not work, or at least i don't sense it's vibrations as i do when i used on windows, has anyone else have this problem, or its just my imagination??

Maybe this is old news, but I've figured out how to make subwoofer work on my M90 (which should be very similar to i9400)
Add the following line to your /etc/modules.d/alsa:

Code:

options snd-hda-intel model=ref

Then run

Code:

# modules-update
# /etc/init.d/alsasound restart

Now you should have a new subwoofer channel (labeled LFE) in alsamixer/kmix/etc.

I use out-of-kernel alsa-driver 1.0.13 with gentoo-sources-2.6.18-r1, if that matters. There are also other options for snd-hda-intel driver described in the documentation included with the source package. You can view it with

Thanks a lot, danton. Do you happen to know how one can tell what version of Alsa drivers kernel sources use? I'm currently using 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 bulit-in Alsa driver but wonder what driver version it was built onto.

EDIT: I've found it finally.

Code:

cat /proc/asound/version

On my machine 2.6.17-r8 is based on alsa driver version 1.0.11rc4._________________Gentoo addict: tomorrow I quit, I promise!... Just one more emerge...
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Normally nvidia driver gets its refresh rate from EDID (IIRC). So there's no need to fix the vertical refresh frequency. Try to set it to 60 just in case..._________________Gentoo addict: tomorrow I quit, I promise!... Just one more emerge...
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Are the in kernel DRM drivers for the 945GM good at this point? I'm finally doing a reinstall of Linux after months with windows. What changes have been made that I can use from when I initially setup the thing back earlier this year?_________________[Owner/Operator: Dhampir Dreams]
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Usually there is another message that immediately follows, which says something like "waiting 5s for the device to come up" but here nothing such happens. I've recompiled udev (079-r2). But it used to work with that version of UDEV... Am I the only one or is it a side-effect of GCC4.1?